On the effect of boundaries on noninteracting weakly active particles in different geometries
arXiv:2102.00711 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.103.042609
Abstract
We study analytically how noninteracting weakly active particles, for which passive Brownian diffusion cannot be neglected and activity can be treated perturbatively, distribute and behave near boundaries in various geometries. In particular, we develop a perturbative approach for the model of active particles driven by an exponentially correlated random force (active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles). This approach involves a relatively simple expansion of the distribution in powers of the Péclet number and in terms of Hermite polynomials. We use this approach to cleanly formulate boundary conditions, which allows us to study weakly active particles in several geometries: confinement by a single wall or between two walls in 1D, confinement in a circular or wedge-shaped region in 2D, motion near a corrugated boundary, and finally absorption onto a sphere. We consider how quantities such as the density, pressure, and flow of the active particles change as we gradually increase the activity away from a purely passive system. These results for the limit of weak activity help us gain insight into how active particles behave in the presence of various types of boundaries.
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